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Developing network-based language learning & teaching in Education
and Teacher Training: The MICaLL Project
Abstract
Ton Koenraad 1
Utrecht University of Professional Education, Faculty of Education, The Netherlands
This paper reports on the design principles and development
of the EU-project ‘Moderating Intercultural
Communication and Language Learning’ (MICaLL).
The key objective of the MICALL project is to promote
the development of education for and dissemination
of knowledge on teacher competencies related to designing
and managing language learning arrangements involving
distributed learners (network-based language teaching).
To this end an international network of pre- and in-service
teachers and teacher educators are developing guidelines and
course project modules for use in initial and in-service training.
A web portal is available for the project partners to facilitate the
experiments on which the course materials production is based and
to support groups of pupils and (student) teachers to collaborate
in the execution of tasks while using the target language for communication
and producing a collective result/product. The design
principles for the MICALL project and its web portal at www.
micall.net are presented, highlighting the project team’s views on tools and task design for
transnational project teams of language learners. We summarize the evaluative research on the
pilot projects carried out by the teacher educators and school based mentors participating in
the initial professional development phase of the project. In the conclusion the implications
of these results for the further development of the web portal and the course project modules
are discussed.
1 Ton.Koenraad@hu.nl
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